Kate's baby bump makes its debut [VIDEO]

What is perhaps the world's most anticipated belly made its debut last week while its owner--the Duchess of Cambridge--was out and about in London.

Kate Middleton, whose royal pregnancy became public when she was hospitalized in early December, appeared to have completely recovered from her bouts of acute morning sickness and celebrated with a shopping trip for maternity clothes at a Boots store in West London.

A cozy-looking shawl and scarf mostly--but not entirely--concealed her newly-full figure.

She has been "arranging meetings with the charities she is involved with and planning future engagements before the baby is born," a royal source told Us Weekly. "She wants to keep herself busy now that she is feeling better."

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